Indigenous environmental knowledge : reappraisal

✍ Scribed by Edington, John M

Publisher: Springer
Year: 2017
Tongue: English
Leaves: 270
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

This book examines comprehensively for the first time, the scope and accuracy of indigenous environmental knowledge. It shows that in some spheres, including agriculture, house design, fuel and water manipulation, the high reputation of local observers is well deserved and often sufficiently insightful to warrant wider imitation. However it also reveals that in certain matters, notably some aspects of health care and wild-species population management, local knowledge systems are conspicuously unsound. Not all the difficulties are of the communities own making, some stem from external factors outside their control. However in either case, remedial measures can be suggested and this book describes, especially for the benefit of practitioners, what steps might be taken in rural communities to improve the quality of life. The possibility of useful transfers of information from local settings to Western ones is not ignored and forms the subject of the book’s final chapter.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter ....Pages i-xv
Introduction (John Edington)....Pages 1-11
Farming (John Edington)....Pages 13-45
Food Supplies and Nutrition (John Edington)....Pages 47-68
House Design and Construction (John Edington)....Pages 69-96
Fuel Supplies (John Edington)....Pages 97-122
Herbal Medicine (John Edington)....Pages 123-141
Water Supply and Waste Disposal (John Edington)....Pages 143-170
Indigenous Knowledge and the Course of Development (John Edington)....Pages 171-201
Lessons for the World at Large (John Edington)....Pages 203-227
Back Matter ....Pages 229-263

✦ Subjects

Traditional ecological knowledge;Indigenous peoples -- Ecology;NATURE / Ecology;NATURE / Ecosystems & Habitats / Wilderness;SCIENCE / Environmental Science;SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Ecology

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